i think you're beginning to see that now with people like jon huntsman and mitt romney talking about afghanistan, and president obama having gotten bin laden, he can overcome the democrats we are defense thing that has haunted him for a while. i think yowlver those two things coming together to have some meaningful reductions and you have the deficit reduction commission. and senator simpson talked about cutting $1 million in the next decade. >> in terms of the bin laden raid, it will be immensely consequenceal. we assume in terms of security concerns. that was a small operation in a town where we don't have ground troops. how much does the success of that familiar operation factor into these discussions? can i have a -- i guess a wide term in terms of the different levels of the budget levels and the rate that affects? >> the budget for the command that got to bin laden is about $11 billion in a $700 billion budget. what this shows is you don't have to invade countries, try to overthrow the regimes, transform the societies to protect our security. that's the lesson of getting bin la